MISS SAIGON

posted on October 3rd, 2019 at 4:03 PM by Steven Stanley

Miss Saigon’s epic blend of war, romance, and show-stopping production numbers has rarely if ever been brought to more dazzling, breathtaking life than in its Tony-nominated 2017 Broadway revival’s First National Tour, now mesmerizing and moving audiences in equal measure at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts.
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

posted on September 29th, 2019 at 10:20 AM by Steven Stanley

Student produced, student directed, student designed, and student performed, Musical Theatre Repertory at USC’s intimate staging of the 2005 Broadway hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is as all-around splendiferous a Bee as any of the sixteen I’ve now seen.
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THE VANDAL

posted on September 28th, 2019 at 12:00 PM by Steven Stanley

A teenager chats up a woman old enough to be his mother (but just barely) at a freezing cold hospital-and-cemetery-adjacent Kingston, NY bus stop and then …

It’s the “and then” that makes Hamish Linklater’s The Vandal a quirkily comedic, profoundly moving 80-minute wonder in its Chance Theater West Coast Premiere.
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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

posted on September 26th, 2019 at 11:25 AM by Steven Stanley

Iconic roles reinvented by a supremely stellar cast and a production design that’s nothing short of original make Pasadena Playhouse’s powerhouse Little Shop Of Horrors unlike any Little Shop you’ve ever seen.
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LAS MUJERES DEL MAR

posted on September 24th, 2019 at 10:45 AM by Steven Stanley

Playwrights’ Arena closes its all-around terrific 2019 season with Las Mujeres Del Mar (The Women Of The Sea), Janine Salinas Schoenberg’s 3-generation, 2-country, 72-minute Mexican-American family saga told from a female point of view.
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BARNUM

posted on September 24th, 2019 at 10:29 AM by Steven Stanley

Seven stellar triple-threat featured performers and some particularly ingenious directorial touches made Musical Theatre Guild’s one-night-only concert staged reading of the 1980 Broadway hit Barnum worth seeing despite a title performance not up to MTG standards.
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GRUMPY OLD MEN THE MUSICAL

posted on September 22nd, 2019 at 10:09 AM by Steven Stanley

No matter your mood upon arrival, expect to exit the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts with the broadest of smiles on your face when you see the feel-good musical that’s been made from the Jack Lemmon-Walter Matthau movie smash Grumpy Old Men.
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THE SPANISH PRAYER BOOK

posted on September 21st, 2019 at 10:25 AM by Steven Stanley

The Road Theatre’s three-year streak of winners ends with Angela J. Davis’s convoluted, uninvolving The Spanish Prayer Book, the company’s 2019-2020 World Premiere season opener.
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